YouMail

Unlike our iPhone-owning friends, Blackberry users have been on the short end of the visual voicemail stick. Visual voicemail is simply having access to recorded voicemail shown as a text entry. Currently the Blackberry Storm has its own form of visual voicemail, but it’s mostly associated with the Apple iPhone and Samsung Instinct, to name a few. Now a vast majority of modern Blackberry users not using Storms can access visual voicemail through YouMail’s app for Blackberry.

The YouMail application provides BlackBerry users with access to visual voicemail that works with both YouMail’s desktop visual voicemail service on their Blackberry device or online. YouMail also allows you to make personalized greetings for different contacts as they are set up on your account.

While the app and the basic service are free, YouMail does offer other plans which allow anywhere from the first few words of the message to the message in its entirety. I took the time to use the app only with the basic free service to get a feel for how it works.

The app gets a grade of C mostly because of its lack of features. In this day and age, when you have so many apps on the Blackberry, like Gmail, which are feature rich and intuitive, this one still makes you rely on the service’s Web site to really get anything done.